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Tel el-Amarna tablets - English translation and notes.
Primary point of interest: a discontinuous chronology of the decay and subversion of ancient Egypt and its possessions recorded through the medium of diplomatic and other exchanges, 1360-1332 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters
Reformat of item at
https://archive.org/details/TheAmarnaLetters/mode/2up
The original was scanned at 300dpi but ineptly; the book was placed too far from the scanning platen or camera so the effective resolution is 150dpi; whereas the detail, diacritics and font size demanded scanning at 600dpi for a satisfactory result. Accordingly the searchable text layer is rudimentary.
See also
The admonitions of an Egyptian sage from a hieratic papyrus in Leiden (1909), p.9
http://www.archive.org/details/admonitionsofegy00gard
"With traitors within, Egypt has also to face the aggression of foreign invaders from the North... A foreign tribe from abroad has come to Egypt (3,1). The Delta is overrun by Asiatics: ... So deep a root have these barbarians taken in the land, that they are no longer distinguishable from true Egyptians: The tribes of the desert{?}) have become Egyptians{?)) everywhere (1,9). There are no Egyptians anywhere..."
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